Thank you very much once again, Riki.
I found the file and I can see it being updated after I apply changes in the
preferences menu inside LyX.
Where can I choose which preferences file to use? I want to save a copy of such
a file and save it in the project's directory. How do I tell lyx to use that
new file?
I can't see anything related to it in the menus.
Screen shot: https://i.ibb.co/cYyJdpk/screenshot.png
Ehud
------- Original Message -------
On Thursday, June 2nd, 2022 at 1:17 AM, Richard Kimberly Heck
<rikih...@lyx.org> wrote:
> On 6/1/22 17:43, ehud.be...@protonmail.com wrote:
>
>> Thank you very much.
>>
>> The last option you mentioned is the one I would like to adopt. But, where
>> is this preferences file located?
>
> If you look under Help > About LyX, it will tell you where your user
> directory is. The preferences file is in that directory. On Linux, this is
> (by default) at $HOME/.lyx/. It is of course elsewhere on Windows and OSX and
> also is, as I said, configurable at runtime via the -userdir option.
>
> Riki
>
>> ------- Original Message -------
>> On Wednesday, June 1st, 2022 at 5:27 AM, Richard Kimberly Heck
>> [<rikih...@lyx.org>](mailto:rikih...@lyx.org) wrote:
>>
>>> On 5/31/22 16:42, tush via lyx-users wrote:
>>>
>>>> Me and my colleagues are working on a multi-user project.
>>>> Is there any way to guarantee that all of us have the same LyX settings?
>>>> We can share screenshots of the settings window, but I prefer something
>>>> more technical.
>>>>
>>>> I mean, the document settings are part of the file.
>>>> But LyX settings definitely should not be the same for all users.
>>>> Particularly, settings that are related to languages, font encoding and
>>>> shortcuts, for example, could change if an expert user has made changes
>>>> after the first installation.
>>>>
>>>> I was wondering if I can write down a file to be sent via email to my
>>>> colleagues so can double-click and open it, and after running it they
>>>> would have the same settings for LyX as me, the project manager.
>>>>
>>>> Is there such a thing?
>>>
>>> Any document-specific settings are contained in the document itself. So you
>>> do not have to worry about those. They will travel with the document. You
>>> can see them yourself. Just open the LyX file with a text editor. It will
>>> look something like this:
>>>
>>> #LyX 2.4 created this file. For more info see https://www.lyx.org/
>>> \lyxformat 608
>>> \begin_document
>>> \begin_header
>>> \save_transient_properties true
>>> \origin unavailable
>>> \textclass paper
>>>
>>> The document settings are in the header, which ends with \end_header.
>>>
>>> The system-wide settings are all contained in text files that you can find
>>> in your user directory, most importantly the 'preferences' file. So to
>>> synchronize those, you just need to send that file to other users. But I'm
>>> not sure that those are what you have in mind.
>>>
>>> Note, by the way, that it is easy to use LyX with different configurations.
>>> The '-userdir' flag lets you specify a user directory, so your users could
>>> have one for use with this project and a different one that they use for
>>> other things....if they want.
>>>
>>> Riki
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